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an invitation to expand
Since my roommate moved out 8 months ago to get married and start a new life elsewhere, I had left the door to her old room closed. Sure, I took advantage of her walk-in closet for some overflow storage boxes and stashed an empty file cabinet on the wall where her desk used to be. Other than that, though, the room remained empty and silent at the end of the hallway, not really a part of my home at all. Once school ended for the summer and I turned in my year-end checklist, all that started to change. I felt the Lord’s nudging to step out in faith with a…
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when roads bend
Almost without fail, one of the reasons God allows our dreams to die is an intimate one: He is using this place of surrender to draw us closer to Himself. Remember the patriarch Abraham, obediently holding the knife over his beloved son, Isaac? By his actions, Abraham had proven himself loyal to God. Now, the Lord wanted to test the faith of his heart. The precious dream of hope and future God had granted his faithful servant hovered a breath away from its demise. Would Abraham remain open to hearing God’s voice, even in his moment of greatest anguish?
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Stirring the Gifts
A sense of tension stirs beneath the worship of our small fellowship these days; our elders addressed it again just this morning. There’s an underlying apprehension and expectation of what’s to come. I would love to know if this same stirring is manifesting itself in the wider Body of Christ, if it signifies a larger move of the Kingdom of God, or if it’s something more limited, unique to us. Personally, I experience it in the urgency to write, to reach beyond time and space and connect with those of similar spirit. I am convinced my Lord has called me to this, to speak forth His words for “such a…
